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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 15/123
TitleLetters from John Pierce, Lake Innes, Port Macquarie, Australia
Extent2 items
Date1840-1844
Description/1: 20 January 1840: lengthy letter describing life from time of his arrival as CMS schoolmaster to work under J. G. Wilhelm at Waterloo, Sierra Leone, to his dismissal from CMS; work with local government in Sierra Leone and transportation to Australia.
/2: 16 April 1844: suggests that CMS has been unwise to send young men abroad whose 'minds cannot be said to be formed' and not placing them under experienced senior missionaries, [signs 'John Pearce']; sends two references to his reformed character.
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